Interesting things happen on this east county suburban campus where I teach on Mondays and Wednesdays. Today, my class was disrupted by a young man who wanted to give his friend, one of my students, some lunch he picked up at Taco Bell. My course runs from 12:30 to 1:45pm, and this person opens the door approximately five minutes after one.
After asking my customary, “May I help you,” the young man said he picked up some food for my student. I told him, “This is not lunch hour.”
Of course, my students find me telling him that amusing. I wonder if he felt any embarassment.
If I were more enterprising, I would take the lunch and eat it. Actually, I wouldn’t, but it was one of those “after it happened” fantasies.
I don’t care if my students eat in class. I don’t care if they sip Starbucks Lattes or Mocha Frappucinos in front of me. I only care that they purchase their snacks or drinks before arriving to my class and dispose of the bags, cups, or any other kind of containers after they’re done. Delivery service to class – definitely not acceptable. As for the young man who interrupted my class with the Taco Bell take-out, perhaps he should reconsider his friendship with my student.
If he continues delivery service, then he should pick some up for the rest of us. There is one instructor and thirty four students who restructured their days to take lunch at different times of the day. We’re all hungry too.
Tags: community college, lunch, odd moments, students, Taco Bell, truly strange
i wish i had a friend who would deliver me lunch like that back when i was in college.
Well, my student didn’t get the lunch. If he got the lunch after class, it must have been cold.
I still kind of regret not confiscating the lunch.